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Closing Date

South East Hub

23:59 - 2nd May 2024

What you’ll be responsible for

As Energy Analyst you will be responsible for:

• Ensuring delivery of a proportion of the energy investment programme (£45m over five years).  This could include; energy efficiency in waste and clean water, wind turbines, solar PV, hydro-turbines and CHP engines.  
• Acting as the client to the capital delivery teams for your projects and liaising with other stakeholders e.g. operations teams, asset managers, suppliers and regulators.
• Specifying projects, creating and assessing their business case and steering them through the capital delivery gateway process.  
• Working with capital delivery teams to ensure that projects are on track to deliver to time, budget and the expected rate of return.
• Analysing data to measure the benefits as part of a post project review.
• Working with the capital delivery alliance, reviewing schemes funded through the Quality and maintenance programmes to identify energy saving or generation opportunities and support their development. 
• Undertaking innovative pilot or trial schemes and report on their progress and outcome. 
• Support ‘Net-Zero’ transition of the business with carbon reduction initiatives
• Monitoring performance against appropriate benchmarks, performing analysis to identify opportunities and, where possible deliver changes, to improve performance.
• Acting as a technical authority (in your particular areas of specialism) to all Welsh Water and partner colleagues on energy related areas relating to clean and waste water energy consumption and generation.
• Undertaking any other duties as required to meet the needs of the business.

Who you’ll work with

Internal

• Operational staff and operational managers
• Asset managers in Welsh Water
• Capital delivery teams

External

• External capital delivery partners 
• Specialist suppliers
• Regulators (e.g. OFGEM, OFWAT)

About you

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in a science or engineering discipline or with substantial experience in an energy role
• Significant technical experience of energy optimisation in a water utility or another medium to large industrial organisation or utility    
• Experience of working in an analytical or asset management role    
• The ability to communicate with confidence and accuracy on the specialist area(s) and able to do so whilst conveying the key information to non-specialists    
• An understanding of energy issues and data in water and wastewater    
• Evidence of problem solving, innovative or lateral thinking to be able to develop solutions arising from detailed data analysis    
   

Good to know

• The successful candidate must be able to travel to site locations as required
• Flexible / hybrid working with official base of work at a DCWW site.
• The role will require significant travel, including several days away from home visiting sites and the potential of working away from home.
• Shift pattern is agreed with the line manager between 7am and 7pm on working days.
• No standby requirement or overtime

For further details contact Andrew Heygate-Brown: Andrew.Heygate-Browne@dwrcymru.com

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 33 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

•    Variable pay schemes ((your salary band will remain the same, but performance depending, you could receive an incremental within-band increase and a yearly incentive)
•    Option to buy additional annual leave up to 5 days per year
•    Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
•    Enhanced family friendly policies
•    Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
•    Reduction on gym memberships and high street shopping
•    Cycle to work scheme
•    Free on-site parking at all our sites
•    Discount off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
•    Car-leasing scheme
•    Health CashBack scheme
•    An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family

Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment

Please note, we may close this role sooner if required. We may also extend the original closing date depending on interest.

Due to the nature of the industry, we require satisfactory references, post offer medical clearance, and a criminal records Basic Disclosure check on all new employees joining the business. For some roles there may be additional checks and security clearance required, and this offer is subject all checks being satisfied. You will receive further information on how to complete these checks via email once you have accepted this offer.

Who we are

Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water keep 3 million people healthy each day with safe, reliable water, and take away wastewater to clean, before returning it safely to our beautiful rivers and seas.

To be able to deliver high quality, essential services which help to protect the health of our customers, colleagues and our environment, we need the right people to deliver on our vision.  This is achieved by living our core values and demonstrating the core behaviours that underpin them.  The security of our people, assets and information is key to us, so we are looking for people who understand and comply with the company’s required security objectives.

We know that the most successful teams are the most diverse teams. Equality, diversity and inclusion provide the very foundation to our culture at Welsh Water. We want every individual to feel confident, proud and able to bring their whole selves to work. 

To ensure an improved representation in our workforce, applications are particularly welcome from minority groups including Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people, Females, LGBT+, Non-binary and people with disabilities. Together we continue to build a workplace that not only celebrates the diverse voices of our colleagues but also represents each customer we serve.

In essence, ours is a company based on trust, openness, respect, commitment and honesty. A company that our colleagues are proud to work for.

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